@banana_meccanica What Extremists are you coming across as I haven’t seen any on here. Least people trying to promote there sites are filling up the space a bit as well as no ‘ads’ anyway so it’s almost understandable hopefully it get’s better in the future though.
I’m not the OP but tbh I think I understand where they’re coming from. At the very least, it seems to me that there are way more actively idealistic pushy people on lemmy. See for example the commie instances, the anarchist, antiwork, union-promoting, anti-car, anti-capitalism communities, etc etc. For anyone who thinks I’m for or against any of these, please consider I did not voice any opinion on them one way or the other, just acknowledged their existence. It’s difficult to get a feel for the general sentiment or develop an opinion from the comments. I opened recently a news post about the Gaza conflict and there were people there who said that people on this website just “hate the jews”, and then there were people who said that the instance was “run by jews”. When a post has 10 comments, 2 stand out.
The reason it seems like there are more extremist people here is that these posts get to the ‘front page’. Browse ‘All’ on lemmy.world and you’ll see quite highly opinionated posts. For someone who is just trying to pass the time, share some hobby stuff, look at memes, that kind of thing, it can be a little off putting.
@banana_meccanica What Extremists are you coming across as I haven’t seen any on here. Least people trying to promote there sites are filling up the space a bit as well as no ‘ads’ anyway so it’s almost understandable hopefully it get’s better in the future though.
I’m not the OP but tbh I think I understand where they’re coming from. At the very least, it seems to me that there are way more actively idealistic pushy people on lemmy. See for example the commie instances, the anarchist, antiwork, union-promoting, anti-car, anti-capitalism communities, etc etc. For anyone who thinks I’m for or against any of these, please consider I did not voice any opinion on them one way or the other, just acknowledged their existence. It’s difficult to get a feel for the general sentiment or develop an opinion from the comments. I opened recently a news post about the Gaza conflict and there were people there who said that people on this website just “hate the jews”, and then there were people who said that the instance was “run by jews”. When a post has 10 comments, 2 stand out.
The reason it seems like there are more extremist people here is that these posts get to the ‘front page’. Browse ‘All’ on lemmy.world and you’ll see quite highly opinionated posts. For someone who is just trying to pass the time, share some hobby stuff, look at memes, that kind of thing, it can be a little off putting.